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Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is the difficulty of predicting when and where lightning will strike; tall structures do attract more lightning strikes, but it’s hard to move them into a...

A new “AI-proof” font was designed to be hard for AI agents to scrape, but you can’t tell by just looking at it. Unlike other anti-AI fonts that use letters that are difficult for bots to read, ShieldFont swaps out words behind the scenes to poison the data that...

Congress has reintroduced the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that would increase benefits by 2% for some 71 million Americans—including 54 million retired workers and 9 million of their survivors and dependents.The bill would temporarily change how Social Security’s...

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Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

In two years, RiseGuide – the self-improvement platform I founded, which teaches adults essential soft skills through short, interactive lessons – has attracted over 850,000 users, traction fueled by the same mechanics that companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok have...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

More businesses are transitioning from API-based software to autonomous AI agents in an effort to remain competitive, but doing so requires significant planning to mitigate problems like hallucinations and their consequences. Until recently, most businesses relied on...

AI models continue to improve, but according to Rob May, those improvements yield diminishing returns relative to what the systems they support can provide. Evaluating the usefulness of various AI models to inform which ones to adopt served as the foundation of the...

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

With access to Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, and more, RovoBlast shows how a single link turns AI permissions into a low-friction path for data exposure. Varonis Threat Labs uncovered a vulnerability in Rovo, Atlassian's enterprise AI...

Introduction: 15 gigabytes is not enoughNot having all the projects and assignments I did in college neatly organized in a single directory is one of my biggest regrets as someone who spends most of his life in front of a computer. Whether it was because of the...

Here's an uncomfortable fact about voice agents: the demo always works. You talk to it in a quiet room, it answers cleanly, everyone nods. Then it ships, a caller rattles off a confirmation code from a parking garage, and the agent writes down the wrong number and...

Imagine Nigeria experiences one of the worst network outages in its history. Mobile networks are down, internet providers have gone silent and every financial institution in the country is effectively disconnected. Bank transfers don't work. Fintech apps don't work....

The AI has decided that you’re the bottleneck.Every agent demo celebrates the same thing: the absence of a person. The agent books the flight, refactors the codebase, migrates the database — unattended, end to end, while you get coffee. “Human-in-the-loop” has become...

After finishing my first book and successfully publishing it through Amazon KDP, I started thinking about translating it into other languages. English may be the largest book market in the world, but it is also one of the most crowded. There are already plenty of...

The perfect prompt doesn't instruct the model on what it already knows how to do. TL;DR: Reasoning models already verify and pace themselves, so drop those prompts and set real effort, scope, length, autonomy. Common Mistake ❌ You still write prompts for a model that...

CERT.PL said this appears to be the first instance of a private APN being used as an attack vector. The post Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...

REST API gives engineering teams on-demand virtual numbers across more than 500 platforms, cutting the manual work of testing one-time-password flowsSMSFAST, an online service that provides temporary virtual phone numbers for receiving SMS verification codes, has...